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"Throughout the earlier half of this millennium, one of the grandest stories in European history was written primarily in stone,"" (Gothic Dreams 1). .
The Gothic age was a time of overwhelming change in the area of architecture. The origin of intellectual and religious life consumed definitively from monasteries to cities, making gothic art much more democratic. Art had to also serve a dictatic purpose during a time where few people could read or write (Norwich 114). .
Italian Renaissance writers originally used the word gothic as a derogatory term for all architects and artists in the middle ages, which were compared to the works of the barbarian Goths. Although now the Gothic Age is considered Europe's internationally acclaimed, it began as a regional phenomenon (Kleiner 488). The gothic style was first recognized in northern France around 1140 A.D., during the last major medieval period, immediately following the Romanesque period. Gothic art would dominate European architectural development for nearly four hundred years (Gothic Dreams 1). These advances that were made in the cathedrals were regarded not as distortions of the classical style, but as images of the City of God, the Heavenly Jerusalem, which they had built on earth. While bishops erected great new cathedrals reaching to the skies. The structural miracle was achieved as the result of man's ceaseless striving to build vertically (Norwich 115). .
"The high vault, functionally so unnecessary, was mainly responsible for the cathedral taking the particular form that they do,"" (Norwich 115). A new spirit had been leashed: less cloistered and introspective, more confident and optimistic. These churches .
Were symbols of civic pride, and for the first time since the very beginning of Christian art, an appreciation of nature. The growth of towns particularly in France, as they became more prosperous, wanted their own churches, churches that were different from the abbeys.

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Cathedral (Raymond Carver) "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver, is one of the best short stories I have ever read. ... When I read Cathedral, I thought that it could be a very interesting story. ... She worked for him to, but they fell in love and got married. ... They watched a documentary about Cathedrals. ... So she got a divorce and found a new guy who is the narrator. ...

The first publication of the short story "Cathedral" was in the March, 1981, issue of Atlantic Monthly. ... In September of 1983, Carver published the collection Cathedral. ... Robert asks the narrator to get some paper and a pen so that they can draw a cathedral together. ... When clips of a cathedral appear on the screen, the narrator, ever inarticulate, is unable to describe a cathedral. The blind man teaches the narrator to "see" the cathedral through drawing. ...

It is the final story in Carver's collection Cathedral published in 1983. ... Cathedral is generally considered to be one of Carver's finest works. ... In one summer, she met Robert in Seattle before she got married to a man preparing to be an officer in the Navy. ... Beulah became the blind man's reader after the narrator's wife stopped working for him, and they eventually got married. ... The only thing on is a documentary about cathedrals. ...

When Robert asks if the paintings on the walls of the cathedral are frescoes, the husband replies "That's a good question. ... Robert asks the husband if he could describe a cathedral to him and he fails at the attempt. ... Robert then asks the husband to get some heavy paper and a pen so that they can draw the cathedral together. As he begins to draw the cathedral, the husband has a strong desire to draw in detail what he missed seeing in his verbal attempt to describe the cathedral. ... I think you got it," he said. ...

After this moment the wife got touched, she was amazed at the sensation. ... The husband got annoyed, because he wasn't taking part of the conversation. ... It was playing a documentary of cathedrals. ... The husband felt like he had to explain to Robert what the set was showing, he offered to sit down and draw a cathedral. ...

In these hard conditions, ancient builders had faced a lot of difficulties in building Gothic Cathedrals because they wanted to build a church that was much larger than previously built, and had bigger windows to allow more light inside the cathedrals. ... From the ancient time to present day, people have admired Gothic Cathedrals for their beauty. Furthermore, the Gothic Cathedrals' design has become a model for builders today, and the builders have still used and improved its techniques and advances for other cathedrals. ... With the breakthrough in design of Gothic Cathedrals, a new er...

"Cathedral" by Raymond Carver, is a uniquely written short story that symbolizes the importance, knowledge and joy of understanding that can be gained by overcoming prejudices and fears. ... Upon the narrator's return from retrieving the pen and paper, the blind man sits with him, places his hand on his and asks the narrator to begin to draw a cathedral. ... While reading this final paragraph of this story I actually got goose bumps I was so intrigued and moved. ... The narrator is experiencing the cathedral from the blind man's perspective and is actually making an effort ...

Cathedral's pivotal scene in which Bub's imagination and sense of self are transformed is triggered when Bub suggests they watch TV in an effort to isolate the man he now views as his nemesis. ... Bub narrates for Robert but his descriptive abilities fail him when he tries to paint a picture of a cathedral. He says it's because cathedrals don't mean anything special to him. ... "You've got it, Bub. ...

This occurs while the narrator is trying to describe a cathedral to Robert as he sees it from a late night television show, in the process he comes to understand what it must be like being blind. ... The television was on in the background it was a program about cathedrals. ... I got ears" (455). This is where the two men really begin to communicate, as Robert asks the narrator to describe a cathedral. ... The husband broadens Robert's understanding of a cathedral's structure whereas Robert opens the husbands" mind to the understanding of what it is to be blind. ...